This year's conference will be held at Red Rock Resort in Las Vegas, Nevada on October 21 -23, 2009. It's our largest event that we often start planning a year in advance.

This year's theme is Adminology, The Art & Science of Leveraging Your Time & Talents to Impact the Bottom Line.

Attendees this year are expected to walk away with these learner outcomes:

• Develop advanced business skills that enable you to contribute in new ways to your organization’s success
• Turn potential talent into demonstrable competence
• Thrive in your chosen profession
• Become increasingly enthusiastic about your contributions in the workplace
• “Roll with the punches” and emerge standing
• Increase your confidence during tumultuous times
• Build upon your already-great skills
• Identify root issues preventing you and your manager from achieving synergy
• Feel more in control in a chaotic environment
• Enhanced clarity about your work and administrative role
• Determine ways in which you can streamline processes and impact the bottom line
• Eliminate self-inflicted road blocks to your career success
• Evolve to a proactive, future-focused business partner
• Employ organization skills to prioritize crucial activities
• Acquire new approaches to managing technology
• Combine strong interpersonal skills with a systematic approach to achieving goals
• Get management to value your contributions
• Gain a richer understanding of what is necessary to be a star in this profession

Thanks, Annette, for asking!

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